12X COMPLETELY CRAZY REQUESTS TO HOSPITALITY STAFF
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: 12x completely crazy requests to hospitality staff.
Can you pour beer, walk with three or four plates, and do you speak your languages? In the hospitality industry, they are eager for you! But besides those qualities, as a server, you also have to be a kind of psychiatric nurse, because seriously, what people sometimes ask borders on the unbelievable. Enjoy...
Can I see your teeth? Do you want to chew my food? Will you bring my vodka to the bathroom? Seriously, these are the questions that people in service get thrown at them. And how do you respond?
Can I see your teeth?
‘An older gentleman asked if I would smile so he could see my teeth. He said I had nice teeth and that he could see I took good care of them. He was at the table with his adult son, who apologized for his father. He said his father was a dentist, but now due to Alzheimer’s sometimes came across as strange.’
Will you pinch my friend in the butt?
I am a food delivery person. A girl ordered a pizza for her boyfriend on Valentine's Day and asked if I would give him a hug and pinch him in the butt. I told him when delivering the pizza what her request was, and we agreed to let her know that I had fulfilled her request.’
Can I buy your socks?
‘A waitress in our restaurant came to me to ask if she could sell her socks to four men who were our guests. Three of those men were teasing number four: it was his birthday and he had a sock fetish. They offered her fifty dollars for her socks. I said: ‘Ask for a hundred dollars and tell them they should tip well too.’ So she did, and sure enough.’
Can I have the crab pasta for the price of the carbonara pasta?
Guest: ‘Can I have the carbonara pasta, but can I get lasagna instead of the tagliatelle? And instead of the carbonara sauce, I would like the sauce with crab and lobster?’
Me: ‘So you would prefer to order the lasagna with crab and lobster?’
Guest: ‘No, I want carbonara pasta, but a little different. And don’t put it extra on the bill, okay! I know the owner, if you do that I’ll make sure you get fired.’
Me: ‘Mom? Do you know this gentleman?’
Can I have peanut butter ice cream with pickle?
‘I worked at Dairy Queen (an ice cream shop, ed.) and a pregnant woman asked for ice cream with peanut butter and pickle. She even brought her own pickles. We aren’t really allowed to put ingredients in the ice cream that aren’t from Dairy Queen itself, but guests can always add their own ingredients on top of the ice cream. So yes, she got a peanut butter ice cream with pickle on top.’
Can I have the beef ravioli, but vegetarian?
‘I will never forget that we got a plate of our beef-filled ravioli back in the kitchen. It was almost gone, but the guest had a complaint. She was vegetarian and now wanted something else.’
Can I have the vanilla latte without coffee?
‘I work in a trendy coffee shop. Two girls, teenagers, ordered an ‘iced vanilla latte’ but without coffee. So I asked: ’Do you mean you want milk with vanilla syrup in it?’ ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘is that what a latte is? Then just give me a glass of water.’ And the other girl said admiringly: ‘It really sounded like you knew what you were ordering.’
Can I have olives with blue cheese in my martini?
‘I was used to strange orders, I worked at a cocktail bar for a long time, but this one was extra weird: a woman who wanted olives stuffed with blue cheese in her martini. We didn’t have olives with blue cheese in stock, so I had to fill each olive myself with a bit of blue cheese. By the way, she didn’t tip.’
Will you stir my cocktail with your finger?
‘The craziest guest was a lady who came by during her lunch break at our cocktail bar. Her order: a lemon drop martini, which was on the menu for twelve dollars. You got five dollars extra if you wanted to stir the martini with your fingers before drinking it. Definitely some kind of weird sex thing.‘
Can you bring my drink to the bathroom?
‘A double vodka, exactly ten minutes in the men’s restroom please. That way his family wouldn’t find out. He would leave twenty dollars by the tap for me. He was about eighty years old.’
Can you clean my shoe for a moment?
‘At an event for food bloggers, one of our guests stepped in a snack that had fallen on the floor. She went to a bar stool and practically stuck her foot in my face and demanded that I clean her shoe sole. So I did that, but when I later told my manager what had happened, he said she could get lost. Fantastic manager.’
Will you chew the food for me?
‘The dish itself wasn’t that weird, but the request that came with it was: if I could chew it and then spit it back on the plate. Huh, what? The guest got very angry when I refused.’
Source: Bored Panda
